Comparing Women In The Iliad, Troy And Ransom

In the film Troy, directed by Petersen, the audience grasps that there is a fair alignment in the making of the storyline to the more ancient poem of The Iliad by Homer. It is with the gods that the Trojan War is believed to have started through the craft of Hera and from the help of Aphrodite and her traits of love and desire. It is in The Iliad that we understand the importance of the Gods on the Trojan War and how they manipulate the terms of war, we often see the Gods turn a battle from the lust and desire of a man to the hatred of a lost love one on the behalf of Patroclus and his dearest companion Achilles. It is a common theme of the three storylines, The Iliad, Troy and Ransom that the woman takes control and with her lustful ways to influence the terms of decision making by men in particular to give them what they are perceived to want. The viewer see this repeatedly during the film and books and seize to imagine that women are the most influential beings in the making of the Ancient Greek storylines, just as when Paris quotes to Helen in the film Troy, “Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed,” meaning that the man does not care of his own life, his love that he has towards his woman is more important than anything else in his life. Paris then goes on to state “You will never be lovelier than you are now.